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by leppr 7y ago
I didn't contest the overall conclusion, but as engineers and entrepreneurs we normally have a propensity to disregard binary thinking. The numbers in your link are useful to predict expected revenue from an iOS vs an Android exclusive
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by leppr 7y ago
Maybe, but it is slightly ironic to chose ' the ' walled garden platform and also read that quote from him in the shared article: > For podcasting to remain open and free, we must not leave major shortcomings for proprietary,
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by leppr 7y ago
This particular data point is irrelevant since the game launched on Android one year after its iOS debut, losing the novelty and marketing factors.
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by leppr 7y ago
Some torrent clients support sequential downloading, which will be equivalent to streaming with most video formats. And obviously there's uBlock for the ads. DRM on streaming and BluRays made it so that any usage outside basic consumpt
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by leppr 7y ago
The mobile application needs some work. The essential and basic operations of creating a room[1] and sharing a link to that room[2] are confusing. Other than that, the video and sound quality were great. [1]: There's no "Go"
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by leppr 7y ago
The Free in FOSS is not for free as in free beer [1]. If you get nausea at people wanting to be compensated for their work, you have a problem. [1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html
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by leppr 7y ago
On the other hand you have some decent criminals out there [1]. These will probably stay an exception though, in the past mafias understood times of crisis were an opportunity to gain popularity and power over the state by helping the popul
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by leppr 7y ago
> Framerates are determined by how much the developer wants to push graphical fidelity/AI etc. Framerates are determined by how much the console has to process before it can display a frame. Apart from possibly setting an upper bo
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by leppr 7y ago
That arbitrary separation never made sense, when HTML always harbored presentation information. From controlling the cascading of styles to spatial layout, your HTML and CSS are tied. The separation of concern that actually makes sense, and
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by leppr 7y ago
Shorter load times is an attractive argument, but it doesn't matter when the #1 issue with current-gen consoles is how unoptimized most games are. The traditional argument to game consoles was that it was cheaper and allowed developers
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by leppr 7y ago
> The output of web design is, ultimately, HTML and CSS The output of web design is ultimately a rendered, interactive webpage. We approve or reject websites by viewing them in a browser, not by looking at their code. > a designer
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by leppr 7y ago
Take comfort in knowing the whole world will slow down, your competitors included.
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by leppr 7y ago
It's think it's likely the two issues I highlighted will eventually have syntactic sugar, I never wrote a transpiler but it doesn't seem that hard to support. It doesn't appear to be a priority though. > With a runti
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by leppr 7y ago
That's the tutorial challenge code, you get the `svelte:component` solution after clicking "Show me". https://svelte.dev/tutorial/svelte-component But yea that's indeed what I should have done in my
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by leppr 7y ago
Slots are currently an unwieldy band-aid. https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/issues/1037 (open since 2017) https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/issues/2079 The simple usage of pa
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by leppr 7y ago
Since you've been using Svelte for a few months after using React, haven't you been hit by the lack of composability in Svelte? Passing around components as variables is such a common pattern in React, and there's no good rep
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by leppr 7y ago
Yea, the only times where I don't use it is when I'm working solo on small projects. Then the dirty tricks like duplicating files into `.bak` or `-ver3`, comment-out unused code for potential reuse later, etc, are actually more ti
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by leppr 7y ago
That's just a visual filter (DOM level). uMatrix and uBlock lists block network requests.
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by leppr 7y ago
Or just put something heavy on your keyboard's "End" key :)
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by leppr 7y ago
> Also, I have had doctors just look at me, feel my throat and look into my eyes then give me the all clear at a physical. Like, how do you know I'm even okay just taking a glance? From my experiences in a bit less than a dozen co
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by leppr 7y ago
Presumably the person who did the benchmarks doesn't own an Apple computer.
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by leppr 7y ago
Fascinating, thanks. Here's the video for the presentation which includes animations: https://youtu.be/u9KNtnCZDMI
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by leppr 7y ago
Yes, it's less black and white than I suggested, but the improvement is still a minimal increment compared to what someone would expect when hearing "blockchain". I guess I'm afraid the public record would just end up lo
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by leppr 7y ago
> There is a difference between deciding all transactions will be published and making them public by design constraint. In a "blockchain" with a centralized validator set, there's no constraint forcing transactions to
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by leppr 7y ago
The new version of DeathAdder[1] reintroduced DPI adjustment buttons, and the LED settings persist even when set with the open-source Linux drivers. [1]: https://www.razer.com/gaming-mice/razer-deathadder-elite
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by leppr 7y ago
Download the wallet to your computer, most often than not these web wallets are open-source and available on Github. The problem with a web wallet is that since clients potentially re-download the app everytime they use it, the server can b
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by leppr 7y ago
Talking with 200 million people spread over an area the size of a continent will cost a lot of money, whichever way you go at it. Electing the ruler to an effective empire is a very different process to electing a local mayor.
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by leppr 7y ago
I've had an Ethereum address for 3 years and I just counted around 30 spam tokens attached to it. That's remarkably low considering how global and easy it is to send. I don't even want to imagine how many spam emails an unfil
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by leppr 7y ago
Turns out the best way to manage spam in a global decentralized network with no gatekeepers is assigning a monetary cost to actions. The notion that the concept of money itself is dirty is an antiquated one. If you're not trading money
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by leppr 7y ago
The battery usage reports on Samsung phones are pretty well done, with graphs and all. Users will also be prompted to kill an app if it's detected running in the background a lot. That's perfect because there are many cases where

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